User: geraint-nz

what about ibm prior art?

On: Microsoft Patents The Body Bus

several years ago ibm showed(patented?) a system where suits at a conference could exchange electronic business cards by touching hands :-)

outsource it ...

On: Super Tuesday Not So Super For Electronic Voting

and yet they got it to work in india

cost

On: Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word)

what about the places where users are charged for their internet traffic? i guess they'll be delighted, first they pay for spam and now this spam of another breed

boycott

On: Commercials Come To The Net (After This Word)

i will boycott any product advertised in any way that interferes with my use of the internet, as i already do with television advertisments

auckland nz free electric buses

On: Dutch Invention Uses Electric Engines For Wheels

for several months the stage coach bus company in the city of auckland in new zealand has been running a fleet of buses driven by electic hub motors powered from batteries charged by gas-turbines. they are extremely quiet, just a faint whistle from the turbine. you can see more here - http://www.stagecoach.co.nz/citycircuit/

southernmost tip ???

On: Scientists Search For Clues to Antarctic Climate

by definition that is the south pole

PSoC page describes the components

On: DIY Bluetooth Headset And Other Inventions

On the PSoC page, among the components listed are 2 300-W resistors. he must get some awesome power out of that 9V battery

open source at the pentagon

On: Microsoft Battles Free Software at Pentagon

the pentagon can examine open source code itself if it wants to vet the security of open source, bet they can't do that with microsoft code. according to earlier stories, microsoft employs foreign nationals as coders - i wonder what that does for security.

old "news"

On: Human Ears Make Noise

that's old was known in 1977 see -
http://www.physics.purdue.edu/deptinfo/postlh/b iop hys_atu.html